Facebook faces lawsuit over failure to take down anti-Muslim pages and groups
By The Washington Post
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was making false and deceptive statements when he told Congress that the company removes content that violates its hate-speech rules, a lawsuit alleges.
The suit, filed Thursday in Washington D.C. Superior Court, alleges that since 2017, civil rights groups and other experts have brought hundreds of anti-Muslim groups and pages on the platform to Facebook s attention, but that the company has failed to penalize more than half of them.
It also alleges that Facebook and its top executives violated the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act, under which it is illegal for a company to make material misrepresentations about a good or service. Civil rights group Muslim Advocates, the law firm Gupta Wessler and University of Chicago law professor Aziz Z. Huq brought the suit.
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Proud Boys Gleeful Over Donald Trump Acquittal, Look Ahead to 2024
On 2/15/21 at 9:57 AM EST
Proud Boys members have celebrated the second acquittal of former President Donald Trump on Telegram channels, with leader Henry [Enrique] Tarrio declaring the group would be here forever and hoped the firebrand Republican runs again in 2024.
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Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Violated Terms of Release for Loss of Contact
On 2/14/21 at 7:28 AM EST
Judges have reportedly summoned the Proud Boys leader, who was arrested in Washington, D.C., ahead of the Capitol riot, to appear in court for violating terms of his release.
Henry Enrique Tarrio, 36, was arrested on January 4 over weapons charges and the alleged burning of a Black Lives Matter banner in December. Tarrio was later bailed and ordered to regularly report to officials as part of the terms of his release.
However, the Pretrial Services Agency wrote to the courts on February 4 to report that Tarrio had not called nor verified his address,